“We are the grandchildren of the witches you weren’t able to kill.”
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The magick that flows through your veins, once flowed through theirs. I think it’s important to know the history of witchcraft, starting with the Salem trials of 1692, where women, men, and even dogs were lynched and crushed under stones (not burned) for the ‘horrible sin’ of practicing/being an accomplice to witchcraft. But it wasn’t just Salem, witches were executed in everywhere. Salem was just a small number. The number of witch executions, not including unofficial lynchings and executions that were hidden, forgotten, or private, ranges from 40,000-60,000. Think about that for a moment.
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Do you know the torturous tests these poor humans endured? The swimming test, where the accused were hog tied and thrown into a lake, the guilty would float to the top, as if the water was rejecting them from a baptism, the innocent would sink helplessly to the bottom. The prayer test where the accused were forced to recite parts of the Bible, ANY errors at all, and they were guilty. These are just 2 examples of the ridiculous and awful tests the accused had to partake in.
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I light a white candle once a week between the months of February and May in remembrance of the witches from all over the world that were executed so wrongfully. You should think about doing the same ✨

The things that go bump in the night.
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I’ve been looking at how colour affects the mood of a piece. The same image three times. The original photograph was of a tree at night.

Project: Fire
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Fire is destructive, transformative, and cleansing. Fire causes so many tragedies in the form of natural disasters, yet, we rely on it for our existence.
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Along with all of the qualities of fire lies a very meditative quality. The ability to keep us warm.
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Light a piece of palo santo on fire and it produces a smoke with the ability to drop you into an undeniable spiritual state.
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There are two sides to everything in life: Destructive/Constructive. Warm/Cold. Stagnant/Transformative. And so it goes.
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Embrace the opposites. If you decide to view fire as a negative destructive force, you inevitably must accept that it is equally a positive transformative force. 🔥